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Dead Marine Life. Suppressed Information. Tens of Millions in Shellfish. A multimedia investigation documenting the struggle between a dying way of life and the last of the large commercial shellfish operations in New York.

Humankind’s most recently scheduled date with the apocalypse came and went without much fanfare. But in New Mexico this year, with fire scorching the ground, smoke filling the air and drought settling in, it doesn’t exactly feel like we’ve gotten off scot-free.

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Neuroscientist Chris Shaw, along with other speakers who attended Thursday's meeting of the Vancouver City Council, is very concerned about the impact on civil liberties of 16 new amendments to the Vancouver Charter.

The collapse of the democratic revolution in Libya will gravely damage the prospects of the “Arab spring” elsewhere. Rulers in other Arab countries where the army is also largely made up of foreign mercenaries, will conclude that they can safely kill enough of their own protesters to “restore order”.

“As soon as you get out there, it fucking punches you in the gut,” said Vancouver photographer Kris Krug. “Unless you are out there near the source, up in the air, it is hard to really imagine the scope [of the BP oil spill]."